AND THE FUTURE ESSAYS FOR THE UNDERGRADUATE ON PROBLEMS EDITED BY RICHARD RICE, JR. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN INDIANA UNIVERSITY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTON ΤΟ MY NEPHEW, RICHARD RICE, 3D IN THE HOPE THAT, WHEN HE ENTERS COLLEGE A GENERATION HENCE, HE WILL FIND THERE A TRUER EXPRESSION OF THOSE IDEALS WHICH THE AUTHORS OF THE FOLLOWING ESSAYS HAVE SEEN FROM AFAR THE PLAN OF THE BOOK There is no enlargement, unless there be a comparison of ideas one with another, as they come before the mind, and a systematizing of them. We feel our minds to be growing and expanding then, when we not only learn, but refer what we learn to what we know already." -CARDINAL NEWMAN. The object of this volume is to present a set of essays which form a close sequence of ideas, a little philosophy, about the present interests and the future problems of the undergraduate. It is hoped that he may find in them a series of facts and opinions that will be naturally productive of further opinions and investigation on his part. The chief intention of the book is to be gathered from the order of the essays, which enables the writer of themes to proceed from one discussion to another logically resulting discussion, accumulating thought instead of "writing himself out" in rather scattered and casual efforts. Owing to the variety of the materials, which illustrate many kinds of writing, he has an unusual chance to gain true impressions of manner and method, because he can here see what different styles do for the drift of the same general argument. The essays make chapters of a book that may be read from cover to cover as a unit. A brief commentary will serve here better than elsewhere to describe some of its practical uses as a text for courses in writing. |